xl, 483 pages : 25 cm

A history of the Korean War presents a broad view of events in the Korean and international arenas along with the personal narratives of individual soldiers

Includes index

Part 1. The beginning -- Chapter 1. Seoul saturday night -- Chapter 2. The crime of Marquis Ito -- Chapter 3. To make a war -- Chapter 4. The plan of General Chae -- Chapter 5. Disaster -- Chapter 6. The U.N. cloak -- Part 2. Battle -- Chapter 7. Task force Smith -- Chapter 8. The late Company A -- Chapter 9. Taejon -- Chapter 10. Retreating -- Chapter 11. Perimeter -- Chapter 12. Fire brigade -- Chapter 13. Death on the Naktong -- Chapter 14. The turn of the tide -- Chapter 15. Seoul recaptured -- Chapter 16. Revenge -- Chapter 17. The taste of triump -- Chapter 18. In the never-never land -- Chapter 19. -- Kunu-ri -- Chapter 20. Into the valley of death -- Chapter 21. Terror by night -- Chapter 22. Changjin Reservoir -- Chapter 23. Chipyong-ni -- Chapter 24. Vae, Caesar -- Chapter 25. Proud legions -- Chapter 26. Gloster Hill -- Chapter 27. Death Valley -- Chapter 28. May massacre -- Part 3. Blundering -- Chapter 29. Truce talks -- Chapter 30. Bloody ridge -- Chapter 31. Heartbreak Ridge -- Chapter 32. Stalemate -- Chapter 33. Behind the wire -- Chapter 34. Frustration -- Chapter 35. Koje-do -- Chapter 36. Twenty rolls of toilet paper, one quart of mercurochrome -- Chapter 37. Summer, winter, spring, and fall. Chapter 38. The last spring -- Chapter 39. Cease-fire -- Chapter 40. Lessons

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